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Fandom: Homestuck
“The sky is still yellow as a grasshopper’s belly, save for a come-early sunset streak on the horizon. Some clouds hang over you, stationary as matte paintings. You jump from cobblestone to cobblestone pretending to be a storm. Ka-krak, ka-krak! Your soles slap the street. Hurricane Roxy will destroy it all. No more horn-haloed girls. No more men. No grim colonial gray, no more checkerboard modernity: you’ll have to rebuild. Your house will disintegrate, and when you emerge from the basement you’ll find muddy plaster and old siding. You and Rose can live in a sugar shack in the woods and share a narrow mattress.”
Source: Gather Up Its Harms and Gods on AO3.

Fandom: Homestuck

The sky is still yellow as a grasshopper’s belly, save for a come-early sunset streak on the horizon. Some clouds hang over you, stationary as matte paintings. You jump from cobblestone to cobblestone pretending to be a storm. Ka-krak, ka-krak! Your soles slap the street. Hurricane Roxy will destroy it all. No more horn-haloed girls. No more men. No grim colonial gray, no more checkerboard modernity: you’ll have to rebuild. Your house will disintegrate, and when you emerge from the basement you’ll find muddy plaster and old siding. You and Rose can live in a sugar shack in the woods and share a narrow mattress.”

Source: Gather Up Its Harms and Gods on AO3.

Monday, 17 September 2012

The ‘Best Submission of the Week’ Feature Trial

The trial fortnight for the ‘best submission of the week’ feature is up.

Activity picked up a little in the first week and a half, but submissions simply vanished in the latter half of the second week. So the verdict on whether it is popular with everyone or not is mixed at best.

Did you like this feature? Was there anything that could have been improved? Do you want this feature to continue?

Answers would be much appreciated. Thank you.

Submitters’ Feature

oodhugger (Journal of Impossible Things)

Submitted a Homestuck fanfiction which gained the most notes in the first week of September.

oodhugger is an 18-year-old girl named Ava. She blogs plenty of Homestuck. In her description she also lists the following fandoms: Doctor Who, Pride and Prejudice, Phantom of the Opera, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Robin Hood (BBC), Pokemon Black.


rileysmisadventures (Riley.)

Submitted a Calvin & Hobbes fanfiction which gained the most notes in the second week of September.

rileysmisadventures is Lynn from New Zealand. In her description she identifies herself as a reader, a ranter, and an occasional gamer, shipper, writer, and anime-er. Her blog is quite personal on her university life and some of her own photography which are excellent.

She also owns a secondary blog Cam277 which is dedicated to her fandoms and OTPs. A quick look-through on the first page shows fanarts from fandoms such as Assassin’s Creed, Devil May Cry, Disney’s Tangled and The Little Mermaid, Final Fantasy XIII, Korra, Gundam Seed, and Naruto.

Best Submission of the Week!

A day late this week, sorry…


Submission of the Week!
Submission by rileysmisadventures (Riley.): 

Fandom: Calvin & Hobbes

I sigh as I enter my own bedroom and flick on the light. I have a long night ahead of me – bills to pay, taxes to prepare, and I promised Moe I’d return his phone call sometime tonight…

“Growing up’s the pits, isn’t it?”

“Tell me about it,” I reply. Then I do a double-take. “Hobbes?”

Hobbes is reclining on the bed, leafing through a “National Geographic” and giving me his usual condescending look.

“HOBBES!”

After years of pouncing on me for kicks, Hobbes is remarkably unamused when I return the favor. But it’s been so long since I’ve seen him, how can I not be excited?

“Where have you been?”

“Right in front of you,” he replies shortly. “You’ve just been too busy to notice.”


Fanfiction of the Week!
Reminiscence by Kenya Starflight on Fanfiction.net.

Fandom: Calvin & Hobbes
Rating: General Audiences
Character(s): Calvin, Hobbes
Pairing(s): N/A
Warning: N/A
Summary: Calvin is all grown up… how has the passage of time affected him and those around him?


Submitter of the Week!
rileysmisadventures (Riley.)

Thank you for your lovely submission.

Wednesday, 12 September 2012

Reminder

Just a mid-week reminder that this week the submission with the most notes stand to win the ‘best submission of the week’ feature.

For more information, click here.

Monday, 10 September 2012
Fandom: Calvin & Hobbes
I sigh as I enter my own bedroom and flick on the light. I have a long night ahead of me – bills to pay, taxes to prepare, and I promised Moe I’d return his phone call sometime tonight…
"Growing up’s the pits, isn’t it?"
"Tell me about it," I reply. Then I do a double-take. "Hobbes?"
Hobbes is reclining on the bed, leafing through a “National Geographic” and giving me his usual condescending look.
"HOBBES!"
After years of pouncing on me for kicks, Hobbes is remarkably unamused when I return the favor. But it’s been so long since I’ve seen him, how can I not be excited?
"Where have you been?"
"Right in front of you," he replies shortly. "You’ve just been too busy to notice."
Source: Reminiscence by Kenya Starflight on Fanfiction.net.
Mod here! This submission was a little too long. Try to be a little more concise in future submissions. Remember - less is more!

Fandom: Calvin & Hobbes

I sigh as I enter my own bedroom and flick on the light. I have a long night ahead of me – bills to pay, taxes to prepare, and I promised Moe I’d return his phone call sometime tonight…

"Growing up’s the pits, isn’t it?"

"Tell me about it," I reply. Then I do a double-take. "Hobbes?"

Hobbes is reclining on the bed, leafing through a “National Geographic” and giving me his usual condescending look.

"HOBBES!"

After years of pouncing on me for kicks, Hobbes is remarkably unamused when I return the favor. But it’s been so long since I’ve seen him, how can I not be excited?

"Where have you been?"

"Right in front of you," he replies shortly. "You’ve just been too busy to notice."

Source: Reminiscence by Kenya Starflight on Fanfiction.net.

Mod here! This submission was a little too long. Try to be a little more concise in future submissions. Remember - less is more!

Fandom: Homestuck
"But things had changed of course.The diminuendo cleared things up and brought forth the zodiac, the fortissimo wrecked the universe and revealed the stars who had in fact already passed, the leading tones tore moons away from their lighthouse, the sonatas told stories of loss and deceit…”
Source: Interstellar Lullabies (Chapter 1) by Plinkoid on AO3.

Fandom: Homestuck

"But things had changed of course.
The diminuendo cleared things up and brought forth the zodiac, the fortissimo wrecked the universe and revealed the stars who had in fact already passed, the leading tones tore moons away from their lighthouse, the sonatas told stories of loss and deceit…”

Source: Interstellar Lullabies (Chapter 1) by Plinkoid on AO3.

Fandom: Mass Effect
It always moved on to something else, because it wasn’t enough just to change your body temperature, it needed to pierce the skin, too. Hammerhead rounds, so you had to brace yourself for high impact; proton rounds, taking down your defenses. Shredder rounds and tungsten rounds and, finally, polonium, getting into the bloodstream, from the bloodstream to the heart. A fever, a headache, almost an infection. You couldn’t slap some medigel on the open wound and wait for it to go away because it wouldn’t, no matter how many cold showers you took, no matter how many walks you went on to clear your head.
Source: Ten Untranslatable Words by spicyshimmy on AO3.

Fandom: Mass Effect

It always moved on to something else, because it wasn’t enough just to change your body temperature, it needed to pierce the skin, too. Hammerhead rounds, so you had to brace yourself for high impact; proton rounds, taking down your defenses. Shredder rounds and tungsten rounds and, finally, polonium, getting into the bloodstream, from the bloodstream to the heart. A fever, a headache, almost an infection. You couldn’t slap some medigel on the open wound and wait for it to go away because it wouldn’t, no matter how many cold showers you took, no matter how many walks you went on to clear your head.

Source: Ten Untranslatable Words by spicyshimmy on AO3.

Fandom: Dragon Age 2
Garrett laughed, and made to catch Anders’ arm – just missing his wrist - and ending up clasping his hand. Anders raised an eyebrow, but did not pull away. To Garrett’s surprise, Anders instead laced their fingers, and he was left wondering why this felt somehow more intimate than sex, why Anders thumb felt more forbidden tracing gently across his hand than against his back, his thighs. “Not that I’m complaining,” he said carefully, “but isn’t the part where you let go and insist that I’m looking too much into it?”
Anders made a non-committal noise, avoiding his gaze. He didn’t let go.
Source: Lessons by appleschnapple on AO3.

Fandom: Dragon Age 2

Garrett laughed, and made to catch Anders’ arm – just missing his wrist - and ending up clasping his hand. Anders raised an eyebrow, but did not pull away. To Garrett’s surprise, Anders instead laced their fingers, and he was left wondering why this felt somehow more intimate than sex, why Anders thumb felt more forbidden tracing gently across his hand than against his back, his thighs. “Not that I’m complaining,” he said carefully, “but isn’t the part where you let go and insist that I’m looking too much into it?”

Anders made a non-committal noise, avoiding his gaze. He didn’t let go.

Source: Lessons by appleschnapple on AO3.

Anonymous:
Is there anyway to edit the templates without the use of photoshop? (I don't have that program on my computer). If so, can you let me know how? If not can I just submit text along with the sources? :) this site is amazing by the way, so many good fics to read

We find MS Paint makes a good alternative. Just open a template on Paint and slap on the text!

We also accept text-only submissions if you are struggling with templates, and we will make one for you. These submissions understandably take a little longer to publish.

Hope to see some submissions from you, anon. And thank you.

Best Submission of the Week!

Submission of the Week!
Submitted by oodhugger (Journal of Impossible Things):

Fandom: Homestuck
“When her grandfather takes his trips around the world and leaves her behind, she sits at her window, looks out at the ocean, and acts like how she thinks a princess should: chin up, shoulders drawn, and a strong smile that knifes through the loneliness. She feels pinpricks at the corners of her eyes sometimes, but that’s never any good; she just bites her lip and squeezes her eyes shut and laughs until the pressure is gone. Tears are only for real sadness, she thinks, and no princess could ever be truly sad. They are women who feel only the most exquisite of sorrows.”


Fanfiction of the Week!
stitching up the circuit boards by delalluce on Archive of Our Own.

Fandom: Homestuck
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Character(s): Jade Harley, Dave Strider, John Egbert, Rose Lalonde 
Pairing(s): Dave/Jade
Warning: N/A
Summary: she sits, and she waits for her story to start.


Submitter of the Week!
oodhugger (Journal of Impossible Things)

Thank you for your lovely submission.


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Saturday, 8 September 2012
Anonymous:
Are the colors in the template pack the only ones we're allowed to use? Or is it alright if we make our own with other colors, as long as "fanfictionftw | tumblr" appears in the corner?

We have received a few self-made template submissions, and so far we’ve allowed them if they were done well. So you may. If there’s more demand for more colours, we might just add a few more templates to the pack. It goes without saying that “fanfictionftw | tumblr” has to appear on the bottom right corner.

Thursday, 6 September 2012
Fandom: Supernatural

Rage fills him, sudden and painful, and he snatches one of those things from the air, oddly solid in his hand, and drops to his knees to smash it against the hill. It explodes and disperses like smoke, and he is up, reaching for the branches and pulling the fruit off by the handful, slamming them into the trunk of the tree. 
"You took them! You took them from me!" He shouts, grabbing more and more, anything within reach, and destroying them against the tree. "Let me return the favor! Let me pay you in kind!"

Source: Oneiroi by R.C. mclachlan on LiveJournal.
Submitter’s note (Feel free to edit or omit): The nsfw tag is for one vaguely detailed sex scene and a gory torture scene.
As long as the author has rated it for adults, the nsfw tag is necessary :)

Fandom: Supernatural

Rage fills him, sudden and painful, and he snatches one of those things from the air, oddly solid in his hand, and drops to his knees to smash it against the hill. It explodes and disperses like smoke, and he is up, reaching for the branches and pulling the fruit off by the handful, slamming them into the trunk of the tree. 

"You took them! You took them from me!" He shouts, grabbing more and more, anything within reach, and destroying them against the tree. "Let me return the favor! Let me pay you in kind!"

Source: Oneiroi by R.C. mclachlan on LiveJournal.

Submitter’s note (Feel free to edit or omit): The nsfw tag is for one vaguely detailed sex scene and a gory torture scene.

As long as the author has rated it for adults, the nsfw tag is necessary :)

Fandom: Homestuck
Suddenly, you’re hot for an entirely different reason. Embarrassment. Shame. You feel fear. He knows. Dirk knows. He’ll know it’s you. He’ll figure it out. Your power is gone. He will make fun of you. He’ll bully you. He’s bigger than you. He will want revenge for what you’ve done to him, forced him to do.You are overcome with fear. You stand up abruptly, knocking the chair over with a loud clatter. This isn’t happening. You did not just give away that information. Without responding to Dirk, you shut down the computer promptly. Your legs are weak as you stumble across your room, tripping over your knocked over chair and falling into your dresser.Source: Cailiborn: Play the Game by mypandas7 on AO3. 

Fandom: Homestuck

Suddenly, you’re hot for an entirely different reason. Embarrassment. Shame. You feel fear. He knows. Dirk knows. He’ll know it’s you. He’ll figure it out. Your power is gone. He will make fun of you. He’ll bully you. He’s bigger than you. He will want revenge for what you’ve done to him, forced him to do.
You are overcome with fear. You stand up abruptly, knocking the chair over with a loud clatter. This isn’t happening. You did not just give away that information. Without responding to Dirk, you shut down the computer promptly. Your legs are weak as you stumble across your room, tripping over your knocked over chair and falling into your dresser.

Source: Cailiborn: Play the Game by mypandas7 on AO3. 

Wednesday, 5 September 2012

Reminder

Just a mid-week reminder that this week the submission with the most notes stand to win the ‘best submission of the week’ feature.

For more information, click here.

 
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